Around 8,000 people will be getting their COVID-19 vaccines this weekend at the state’s mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway.Around 4,000 people got vaccinated on Saturday. Everyone this weekend would be getting their first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. “They’re coming through getting vaccinated and then they’re going to their observation period, then they are out, they’re out in about 35 to 40 minutes and we’ll vaccinate somewhere between 4,000 and 4,200 people today,” said Perry Plummer, of the state’s COVID-19 vaccine response team. At one point Saturday, state health officials estimated they were vaccinated around 700 people an hour. This is the second time the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon has held a mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic and officials and volunteers said they keep making adjustments to improve the process. “Every time we do this when we are done, we take a look and say, what can we do to be better and stronger and we make a few changes to help the process go better and this is proof of it right here, you can see things are going great today,” Mary Reed with Granite United Way said. The efforts this weekend have state officials optimistic about the entire vaccination process.”We are over a month ahead of schedule, this week coming we are rolling out all the other phases and that’s gonna be great for our citizens and then we just get into making sure that everybody gets vaccinated and hopefully everybody will be able to have their first dose by the end of May,” Plummer said.Everyone who received a vaccine this weekend will have a second appointment scheduled for them the weekend of April 24 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
LOUDON, N.H. —
Around 8,000 people will be getting their COVID-19 vaccines this weekend at the state’s mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Around 4,000 people got vaccinated on Saturday. Everyone this weekend would be getting their first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
“They’re coming through getting vaccinated and then they’re going to their observation period, then they are out, they’re out in about 35 to 40 minutes and we’ll vaccinate somewhere between 4,000 and 4,200 people today,” said Perry Plummer, of the state’s COVID-19 vaccine response team.
At one point Saturday, state health officials estimated they were vaccinated around 700 people an hour. This is the second time the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon has held a mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic and officials and volunteers said they keep making adjustments to improve the process.
“Every time we do this when we are done, we take a look and say, what can we do to be better and stronger and we make a few changes to help the process go better and this is proof of it right here, you can see things are going great today,” Mary Reed with Granite United Way said.
The efforts this weekend have state officials optimistic about the entire vaccination process.
“We are over a month ahead of schedule, this week coming we are rolling out all the other phases and that’s gonna be great for our citizens and then we just get into making sure that everybody gets vaccinated and hopefully everybody will be able to have their first dose by the end of May,” Plummer said.
Everyone who received a vaccine this weekend will have a second appointment scheduled for them the weekend of April 24 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway.